About the Echo
Welcome back! We are extremely excited and grateful to step in as your Editorial Directors for the 2025 – 2026 school year. As new Directors, our goal is to take inspiration from the editors before us and turn the publication into something that works for us in the present and will continue to be successful in the future. In doing so, we have made a few changes to what our print looks like this semester. We have spent this last cycle training some amazing new staffers through our new ‘heeling’ process, which involved returners passing down their knowledge in an interactive partnership. Echo wouldn’t be possible without all of their dedicated hard work!
Our Creative Director has been working on redesigning and organizing our approach to design, including this cycle’s 20-page print. Our first cycle will feature five pages dedicated to introducing each content section, showcasing our photography and giving you a sneak peek into a story. You will notice little statistics, polls and questions, providing you with an idea of what the story is about. To read the actual story, you must check out our website, slpecho.com. The introduction pages are followed by more traditional pages that contain stories, pictures and share information through student/staff voices, infographics and other small outlets of information.
With a newfound emphasis on our website content, our Digital Director has been uploading a variety of content to the website, as well as intently working towards earning SNO Journalism badges. In addition to our Digital Director, our brand new social media editor has been working on posting for 30 consecutive days to earn the “Audience Engagement” badge throughout the month of October. Alongside Instagram posts, keep your eyes out for multimedia pieces, podcasts and NYT-inspired downtime games, all found on the website!
Our Publications Director has been working directly with all staffers on learning story formats, expanding coverage of the student body and writing about current events in relation to Park.
We are excited to continue to improve our print, expand coverage and work hard to create high-quality content as a strong team of journalists.
Kayleigh Bishop, Shepard Cox and Audrey Kuendig
Echo Editorial Directors
109 Years
In October of 1916, the first issue of the St. Louis Park Echo was published. The Echo is published quarterly as a newsmagazine. In continuous publication for last 110 years, the Echo has been a beacon of student voice.
Journalism at St. Louis Park
We are a student-led media organization where all editorial decisions are made by student editorial leaders. We have a robust editorial process that ensures fair and accurate stories. We are dedicated in capturing student voice in the 21st century. In 2025-26, audio journalism was added as an additional course to the print publication course. The 2026-27 school year will usher in a video news course. All three courses will be offered for concurrent enrollment credit, allowing journalism students to receive up to eleven college credits. The majority of students, at St Louis Park High School, will take at least one journalism course in their four years of study—teaching the power of non-fiction narrative story telling to a generation of students